Wright & Grainger are two friends from Yorkshire who have been writing and playing together for most of their lives. In Adelaide, we know them as the storytellers of Orpheus, Eurydice – and new this year, the superb Helios; and the euphoric songs and spoken word of The Gods, The Gods, The Gods. They take their stories and music all over the world, playing in back gardens, Fringe yurts, and the Sydney Opera House. And for two nights in Adelaide, they’re playing a less structured gig, full of poems and songs that are old, borrowed, or new; things that didn’t fit into one of their shows, alongside snippets of those that did.

There are songs of first love, second love; poetry on bus stops, and stone masons, and broken relationships leaving half-empty bookshelves. And there is an epic tale worthy of the Greek mythology with which they are so familiar: a trip to Italy to see Damien Rice play a show. On this journey they take us on, there are references to the Bible, abstract expressionism, a Roman amphitheatre, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest.